The slanted article seems to show the SBC doing this sort of thing in a vacuum. I suspect it has received letters from pastors with views similar to your pastor’s views. Lose one church(albeit a big one) or loose dozens or even hundreds and split the SBC, I’m sure that is what the SBC leadership had to consider.
“The slanted article seems to show the SBC doing this sort of thing in a vacuum.”
I don’t know for sure. Although we attend an SBC church now because the preaching is the best we’ve found here, we don’t typically “do” SBC. Our pastor said he went to Nashville meeting where Saddleback was the main topic of discussion, and the attendees were NOT happy about it. I guess TPTB there got the message.